We never really understood why people go around saying, "It's hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk!"

First of all, your egg would taste like sidewalk. And second — and more importantly — who's going to clean it up? And who wants to have leftover fried egg on their sidewalk during a heat wave? The smell would be downright putrid.

So we agree: Time to come up with a new folksy aphorism.

We thought of a bunch of them, but then we got hot and adjourned for iced tea. That means it's your turn next.

See if any of these roll off your tongue:

It's hot enough...

- to convince Gov. Christie to relinquish his fleece.

- to render even a Hoboken hipster uncool.

- to fire up the Mets' batting rotation.

- to melt Snooki's tan.

- that if Cory Booker saw a burning building, he wouldn't run into it.